BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



415 



C[olumbigallina] passerina socorrensisl (not C. p. socorroemis Ridgway) Hartekt, 



Ibis, 1893, 305, in text (Porto Rico). 

 Chamsepelia.portoricensis Lowe, Ibis, 9th ser., ii, Jan., 1908, 108 (Guanica, Porto 



Rico; coll. P. R. Lowe). 

 C[hamBepelia] portoricensis Lowe, Ibis, 1908, 545, in text (St. Thomas; crit.). 

 Chamsepelia jamaicensis (not of Maynard) Lowe, Ibis, 1908, 111, part (St. Thomas; 



St. Christopher; Dominica; crit.). 



CttffiMEPELIA PASSERINA AFLAVIDA (Palmer and Riley). 



CUBAN GROUND DOVE. 



Intermediate in coloration between C. p. antillarum and O. p. 

 trochUa, but color of bill (in life) very different from either, being 

 black to base, where washed or tinged with crimson. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 156-178 (165); wing, 77-86 (81); 

 tail, 55-61 (58); exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (11.2); tarsus, 15-16.5 

 (15.6).° 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 160-166 (164); wing, 81-85 (83.5); 

 tail, 54-60 (57); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.6); tarsus, 15-16 (15.4)." 



Cuba (Havana; Pinar del Eio; Trinidad; Guama; El Cobre; Hoi- 

 gum ; San Diego de los Banos; Eem^dios; La Catchina near Tagua; 

 Monteverde; Guanajay; Santiago de Cuba; Guantanamo Bay; 

 Figuabas), Isle of Pines (Jucaro; Hospital; Nueva Gerona; San 

 Juan; Callebonita; McKinley; Santa Barbara), and Haiti (Jacmel, 

 Le Coup, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Catare, Honduras, Sanchez, 

 San Crist6bal, La Vega, Maniel, Fuerte Resoli, Santa Domingo, and 

 Puerta Plata, Santo Domingo). Casual on Grand Cayman and in 

 Jamaica (Spanishtown). 



[Columba] passerina Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 285, part (Santo Do- 

 mingo, ex Brisson). 



Columba passerina Temminck, in Temminck and Knip, Pigeons, i, 1808-11, 

 Colombi-gallines, 24, part, pis. 13, 14 (Santo Domingo); Hist. Nat. Pig. et 

 Gallin., i, 1813, 425, part (Santo Domingo); PI. Col., i, Tabl. M£th., 1838, 

 81. — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvii, 1818, 401, part (Santo Do- 

 mingo); Gal. Ois., i, 1825, 333, part, pi. 196 (Santo Domingo). — Hearne, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1834, 110 (Haiti).— Ritter, Reise nach Haiti, 1836, 



° Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Five adult males from Cuba 82.4 59.4 11.5 15.9 



Two adult males from Isle of Pines 81.5 59 11 15.5 



Three adult males from Haiti 79.7 55.3 10.8 15.3 



FEMALES. 



Seven adult females from Cuba 83.6 56.7 11.8 15.5 



Two adult females from Isle of Pines 84 57 11.5 15 



One adult female from Haiti 82 56 11 16 



Tarsus 



